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 \end{enumerate}
 
 Additional permissions present the easier case.  Since the mid-1990s,
-permissive exceptions often appeared alongside GPLv2 with permissive
-exceptions to allow combination
+permissive exceptions often appeared alongside GPLv2 to allow combination
 with certain non-free code.  Typically, downstream
 stream recipients could remove those exceptions and operate under pure GPLv2.
 Similarly, LGPLv2.1 is in essence a permissive variant of GPLv2,
